3rd exam Flashcards
is the ability to obtain sharpperceptionsor to judge
well (or the activity of so doing).
Discernment
is the ability to produce a reasonable and defensible
answer to anethical question.
Moral decision making
is a complex situation where ethical principles or values
are in conflict.
Ethical Dilemma
is a cognitive process that considers various ethical
principles, rules, and virtues or the maintenance of
relationships to guide or judge individual or group
decisions or intended actions.
Ethical decision making
Other nurses and other health and non-health related
workers and professionals.
Co-worker
A professional relationship based on collegial and
reciprocal actions and behaviour that aims to achieve
certain jointly agreed goals.
Collaborative relationship
Information obtained during professional contact that is private to
an individual or family, and which, when disclosed, may violate
the right to privacy, cause inconvenience, embarrassment, or
harm to the individual or family.
Personal information
Other nurses, health care workers or other professionals
providing service to an individual, family or community and
working toward desired goals.
Related groups
Is rooted in the understanding that God is ever at work in one’s life, “inviting, directing, guiding and drawing one” into the fullness of life”.
Principle of Moral Discernment
It presupposes an ability to reflect on the ordinary events of one’s life, a habit of personal prayer, self – knowledge, knowledge of one’s deepest desire and openness to God’s direction and guidance
Principle of Moral Discernment
indicates that people are obligated to inform themselves about ethical norms, incorporate that knowledge into their daily lives, act according to that knowledge, and take responsibility for those actions.
Principle of Well-Formed Conscience
is a judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has already completed.
Conscience
involves distributing health-related materials and services among various uses and people. The concept of allocation can imply that a designated individual or group is responsible for each level of decision making within a system that is designed to distribute fixed amounts of resources.
Allocation of Health Resources
focuses on decisions regarding particular persons.
Microallocation
It often involves “patient selection”: determining which patients among those who need a particular scarce resource, such as a heart transplant, should receive treatment.
Microallocation